Local History Collection

You're Invited to Visit the Local History Department!

Where: Local History Room, Fayetteville Free Library (300 Orchard St., Fayetteville, NY)

When: Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10am - 3pm or by appointment.

Why: Stop in to learn about your neighborhood, your favorite organizations and the people who have left their mark on the Fayetteville community. Click here for our Plan of Service.

How: Drop in, or contact Maija McLaughlin at (315) 637-6374 ext. 318, or mmclaughlin@fflib.org.

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Local History Collection

Photographs and Documents of local individuals, clubs, organizations, businesses, schools, churches, parks, government and local agencies.
Published books categorized by Local Authors, Local Interest and Central New York History
Local weekly newspapers (1840 - ) on microfilm
Fayetteville Schools Collection including yearbooks dating back to the 19th century
Archives of local organizations including Fayetteville Scout Troops, Garden Clubs and Women’s Study Groups (Coterie and Philomath)
Our Town: a 22 volume series of notebook binders created and maintained by Nancy Roberts Kepler
Scrapbooks and Assorted Family Archives

Databases

Ancestry.com: Library Edition: Genealogy, family trees and family histories online. Available for use in the library only.
Heritage Quest: search U.S. Federal Census documents from 1790-1930 as well as many more genealogy and local history resources.
Newsbank: access Post-Standard articles from 1986-present.
Newspaper Archive: a digital archive of Syracuse newspapers (1857 -2012). This resource is only available in the library. Please ask a librarian for assistance.

Fayetteville Free Library

You're Invited to Visit the Local History Department!

Local History Collection

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